Chapter Seventy-Eight: Who Will Live and Die with Me?
The Qing army in Pizhen resisted stubbornly, and another reinforcement from the Qing army arrived, and the shape suddenly became nervous.
"The last general is willing to go out of the city to meet the enemy!"
"The last general wants to go!"
"I'm willing to go ...... too"
Tan Xiao, Zhou Guodong, Lu Renqing and Teng Shuanglin asked for their lives.
Tan Xiaoti divided 2,000 troops out of the city, defeated the Qing army's reinforcements, and then returned to launch a general attack on the warehouse.
Zhou Guodong divided 1,000 troops out of the city to block the reinforcements of the Qing army, and the main force of the Gongyi battalion attacked the Qing army's warehouse as originally planned.
LΓΌ Renqing divided 500 troops out of the city, and then brought 1,000 auxiliaries to block the reinforcements of the Qing army.
Teng Shuanglin went out of the city by himself, with only 2,000 auxiliaries, to block the reinforcements of the Qing army.
"Let's go, the general attack in the city is under the command of Zhou Guodong......" Wang Kefan finally made a decision and arranged a battle plan for Zhou Guodong and others.
Dividing troops will definitely not work!
The infantry of the Gongyi battalion has a total of more than 5,000 people, after the early battle attrition, there are now only more than 4,000 people, there are more than 2,000 Qing troops in the warehouse, and there are some Qing troops on the other side of Pizhen, the strength of the Gongyi battalion does not have an absolute advantage, if you want to smash the last line of defense of the Qing army, you have to use all your strength, even if you only divide 500 troops, you can't do it!
You can only rely on auxiliaries!
The Qing army had 1,500 reinforcements, and the Gongyi battalion had more than 2,000 auxiliaries, but the auxiliaries had no armor and no combat experience, and Teng Shuanglin's prestige was not enough, so he couldn't win the battle with those auxiliaries.
In this blocking battle, Wang Kefan must go into battle in person!
When he returned to the camp, the auxiliaries had just prepared, some wearing spare armor, some wearing the armor of wounded soldiers, and some wearing the armor of the Qing army, which was used for disguise and surprise attacks. According to Wang Kefan's order, all of them were taken out for the auxiliaries to wear.
But most of the auxiliaries still have no armor, only a knife or a spear, and a small number of auxiliaries are not equipped with weapons, so they take one casually, there are knives and guns, as well as firearms and bows and arrows, and even the Qing army's tiger tooth knife, pear flower gun, regimental short knife and so on.
It's a mess!
The auxiliary troops also have their own establishment, corresponding to each post of the Gongyi battalion, after they received Wang Kefan's order. They divided all the weapons and armor equally, so that each team had a variety of weapons, and the armored and unarmored soldiers were also mixed.
"Listen to my orders, all the soldiers with muskets, get out of the ranks!" Wang Kefan ordered loudly.
"All soldiers with bows and arrows. Dequeue! β
"All soldiers with shields, get out of line!"
"All the soldiers with tiger tooth knives. Dequeue! β
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Auxiliaries who grab weapons indiscriminately will be eliminated. This is to fight, not to make a fuss, and at least the arms should be separated.
Huhulala, more than 500 people came out of the team, and Wang Kefan called a general and handed over these auxiliary soldiers to him for command. Left to guard the camp. This vicinity is full of scouts and horses of the Qing army, and if they attack the camp and burn down the baggage vehicles, the Gongyi battalion, which is alone in the depths, will immediately run out of food. There is a danger of total annihilation.
Wang Kefan wants to burn down the warehouse in Pizhen, but he can't completely compensate the Gongyi camp, although there is a lot of grain in the warehouse in Pizhen, but it is easy to burn those things, but it is not simple to move away, and it cannot be expected.
The remaining 2,000 or so auxiliaries are relatively neat, their weapons are only spears and single knives, all of them have received basic training, most of these auxiliaries are from Huguang, they have joined the Gongyi battalion for a long time, and they have seen a lot of large and small battles, and they can go into battle at critical moments.
The armor is still in disarray, but now there is no time to adjust.
"Guys, why did we come to Pi Town, do you know?" Wang Kefan raised his voice.
The auxiliaries looked at him together, not knowing how to answer, when someone in the team suddenly shouted.
"Kill the Tartars!"
After he finished shouting, the other auxiliaries followed suit.
"Kill the Tartars! Kill the Tartars! Kill the Tartars ......"
The Heart of the Army is available!
Wang Kefan smiled and stretched out his hand to press it, and the auxiliaries immediately calmed down.
"Yes, of course we're going to kill the Tartars."
He suddenly pointed in the direction of Pizhen: "Pizhen is a warehouse of Tartars, storing thousands of loads of grain, knives, guns, gunpowder, armor, and clothing...... Without these things, Jin Shenghuan's 100,000 army can only starve, bare-ass, and fight with us with bare hands, and we come to Pizhen to burn it with a fire! β
"Burn it! Burn it! "The voice is getting neater and louder.
"It's easy to burn it, and in another hour, we'll be able to lay down the town and burn all the Tartars' belongings!" Wang Kefan's voice was full of confidence: "But the Tartar is scared, and he sent more than a thousand rescuers to grab a few pairs of pants to go back, can we give them to him?" β
"Can't!" Two thousand auxiliaries made a single voice.
"One hour, as long as we block them for an hour, we can win this battle, do you dare to go?" Wang Kefan gave a specific time, which sounded much less difficult than the task.
"Dare! Dare! The sound was heard in the sky.
"Today's battle is related to my Ming Dynasty's national fortunes, the emperor's safety, and my Gongyi Battalion's life and death.
"Me! I! This time it was two voices, in addition to the 2,000 auxiliaries, the more than 500 auxiliaries who had been eliminated also shouted, and the crowd was excited, and they couldn't help themselves.
"Subordinates are brave, please go to battle with General Wang!" A person suddenly rushed out of the eliminated auxiliaries, knelt down on one knee in front of Wang Kefan, and saluted.
Wang Kefan raised his eyebrows slightly, it is a military salute, with strict standards and norms, and the general auxiliary soldiers are not good, just like the military salute of the People's Liberation Army in later generations, when the recruits salute, they always do not have the chic energy of the veterans, but the salute of this auxiliary soldier is clean and neat, and it is not an ordinary person at first glance.
"What's your name?"
"The subordinate surname is Wang, and the single name is a Yi character." Wang Yi raised the bird gun in his hand: "My subordinates are good at making bird guns, and I am willing to follow General Wang to kill thieves and make contributions." β
"Okay, let's see what you're capable of."
Wang Kefan agreed, Wang Yi was overjoyed, and the other auxiliaries also asked for their lives when they saw it, Wang Kefan waved his hand and rejected them with a smile. The task of guarding the camp is also very important, and you can't take everyone away.
With his order, 2,000 auxiliaries lined up out of the camp and marched towards the west of the city, and the 1,500 reinforcements of the Qing army came from the west, and the Gongyi battalion wanted to block them out of the west gate.
Two thousand auxiliaries, one hundred archers, and one hundred and fifty personal soldiers, this is Wang Kefan's strength.
His enemy was 1,500 green soldiers in armor. (To be continued......)